So how does NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA), AMD's chief rival in the PC graphics market feel about AMD's dominance of the increasingly PC-like consoles? Not too bad, apparently.

NVIDIA's Senior Vice President of content and tecnology told Gamespot in a recent interview that his company is essentially letting AMD win. While he's convinced his firm could be AMD if it tried, he says it just isn't worth it, remarking:

I'm sure there was a negotiation that went on and we came to the conclusion that we didn't want to do the business at the price those guys were willing to pay. Having been through the original Xbox and PS3, we understand the economics of the development and the trade-offs.

If we say, did a console, what other piece of our business would we put on hold to chase after that? In the end, you only have so many engineers and so much capability, and if you're going to go off and do chips for Sony or Microsoft, then that's probably a chip that you're not doing for some other portion of your business.

That statement seems a bit odd -- after all, hegemony of consoles could be a ticket for a financially struggling AMD to effectively sell tens, if not hundreds of millions of chips.

But NVIDIA's focus is more directed on the mobile market, where it's looking to leverage pared down versions of its GeForce GPUs beside ARM CPU cores. NVIDIA has its work cut out for it in that market; it largely lost the last round to Qualcomm, Inc. (QCOM) due to its chips being too power-hungry.

NVIDIA is focused on its mobile processor war with Qualcomm.

NVIDIA is looking to change later this year with the refresh of Tegra 4 that will include an on-die LTE modem. Between Tegra and the development of traditional PC GPUs, NVIDIA sounds content to let AMD freely dominate the console market -- or so it says.

As far as I know is the Tegra SoC the only SoC with a fifth low power companion core. No one else has this. But this companion core is a huge power saver and a unique part. nVidia does use their own GPU and produced their own radio chip lately. The only stock part is the A9/A15 core.Samsung on the other hand uses stock ARM cores, stock GPUs from ARM or PowerVR and uses given configurations from ARM (big.LITTLE). No own innovation or SoC design at all, except in the manufacturing process.Qualcomm on the other hand fully develops its own SoC, cpu, gpu, radio, ...Apple started to do the same, yet they still rely on a stock GPU from PowerVR. So identical to nVidia, except that nVidia uses defautl ARM CPUs, Apple uses default PowerVR GPUs.